

While I read, my day fell away, page by page, replaced by sarcastic observations and extremely dry wit. I waged a brief debate with myself: do I crash in bed? Do I save it as a reward after I write my two other reviews and finish my two other less-interesting books? Or do I go for it? I received notice of my ARC approval after a marathon day vaccinating people (10 stations, 573 people, thank you all very much for getting shots), and while fulfilled, was quite exhausted. In timeline terms, it takes place before Network Effect. It has some new humans to work with, although a few of our familiar friends make an appearance. In this case, it’s somewhat constrained from using full capabilities due to general unfriendliness of the human Station Security team and its honor system. This is odd, because they appear murdered on a station with a threat assessment of 7% “(to make it drop lower than that we’d have to be on an uninhabited planet.)” ‘Bot jumps right into the investigation, spurred on by concern that Gra圜ris might be involved.

In Fugitive Telemetry, ‘Bot is on Preservation Station and has recently discovered a dead–cough, deceased–human.

I didn't make an expression because I knew Indah would be more annoyed by me not reacting than by me reacting." "Oh good, maybe the security level would go from barely adequate to mostly adequate. While I’m contractually bound to not repeat the approximately 80 highlights I made while reading, I can assure you that it is filled with ‘Bot’s trademark sarcastic thoughts on humans, slow thought processes, and complicated facial expressions. No, I mean Murderbot is back in a solid novella. No, I don’t mean the vaccine, although that’s pretty amazing. 2021 is looking to be a pretty special year.
